Biography
Haya is the founder of Haya Rashed AL Khalifa Law Firm. She was the vice chairwoman of the Arbitration Committee/International Bar Association and the first Bahraini woman Ambassador to France and its nonresident Ambassador to Belgium, Switzerland and Spain. She is also Bahrain's permanent delegate to UNESCO.
She has been elected as President of the 61st Session of the U.N in 2006/2007. General Assembly, becoming the third woman to hold the position. She received several notable awards, including the U.N. Millennium Development Goals Special Award, the Path to Peace Award and the Social Creativity Award from the Arab Thought Foundation. In 2018 Haya was honored to be elected as president of the world heritage committee at the UNESCO.
Practice areas
- Banking
- Capital markets: Equity
- Financial services regulatory
- Project finance
- Restructuring and insolvency
Sector specialisations
- Banking
- Oil and gas
- Real estate
- Social infrastructure
- Tech and telecoms
Association memberships
- ICC Bahrain National Committee
- IBA International Bar Association
Academic qualifications
- Bachelor of Law (Kuwait, 1974).
- Courses (DESUP) in international Public Law (Droit International Public)
- (Des organization international ET Universitie de Paris, Sorbonne, France,1977).
- Diploma in Civil Private Law , 1986
- Diploma in Comparative Law
- University of Ain Chams , Egypt (DEA) , 1988